Large tree limb crashes on top of truck in Hermon, Stetson driver walks away with scratch

Courtesy photo | BDN

Courtesy photo | BDN

49-year-old Roy Jordan of Stetson suffered only a cut on his right hand after a large tree limb fell across across Union Street in Hermon and landed on his 2008 GMC extended cab pickup truck shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The downed tree limb knocked down power and cable lines and closed a section of Union Street near Butler's Garage for nearly an hour as crews from Central Maine Power and the town of Hermon's Public Works Department cleared the scene.

Courtesy photo | BDN

Courtesy photo | BDN

49-year-old Roy Jordan of Stetson suffered only a cut on his right hand after a large tree limb fell across across Union Street in Hermon and landed on his 2008 GMC extended cab pickup truck shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The downed tree limb knocked down power and cable lines and closed a section of Union Street near Butler's Garage for nearly an hour as crews from Central Maine Power and the town of Hermon's Public Works Department cleared the scene.

Courtesy photo | BDN

Courtesy photo | BDN

49-year-old Roy Jordan of Stetson suffered only a cut on his right hand after a large tree limb fell across across Union Street in Hermon and landed on his 2008 GMC extended cab pickup truck shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The downed tree limb knocked down power and cable lines and closed a section of Union Street near Butler's Garage for nearly an hour as crews from Central Maine Power and the town of Hermon's Public Works Department cleared the scene.

HERMON, Maine — A Stetson man on his way home from night classes in Bangor escaped serious injury Monday night after a large tree limb crashed onto the hood of his 2008 GMC extended cab pickup truck.

The accident happened about 9:12 p.m., Deputy Jay Hallett of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday. Hallett said Roy Jordan, 49, was driving on Union Street in Hermon when just beyond the hill near Butler’s Garage, a large tree limb fell across the road, landing on Jordan’s truck and causing its airbags to deploy.

The downed limb also brought power and cable lines to the ground as it fell, causing outages on one side of Union Street.

“It basically came down across the front of his hood and flattened [the front part of] his cab,” Hallett said.